Examples of hypnotic

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No hypnosis control group was included in our study and hypnotic induction of ' blindness ' has not, to our knowledge, been reported.
Many commentators attest to the hypnotic cross-gender and cross-age appeal of postcard images.
People who are led to do odd actions through post-hypnotic suggestion, for example, often confabulate reasons for their action.
In the case of hypnotic involuntariness, the person has a very clear and well-rehearsed idea of the upcoming action.
Hypnotic suggestibility scales are not "indications of the success of the induction" (p. 282).
Certainly it is true that hypnotic subjects often feel that they have lost control over their percepts, memories, and behaviors.
Even posthypnotic suggestion, the classical exemplar of hypnotic automaticity, lacks the qualities associated with the technical definition of automaticity.
The singing seems hypnotic, and the round, as rounds are wont to do, does not yet seem ready to end.
Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences "absorption"!, a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.
Benzodiazepines are frequently used as a hypnotic agent.
They argue that innate hypnotic ability interacts with environmental stressors to lead to dissociative reactions which are then learned as a defensive, neurotic maneuver.
If this were the case, cognitive load should enhance responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions.
Here, the hypnotic suggestion served to prevent motor intentions from reaching forward models of the purposive behaviour.
In this sort of case, hypnotic suggestion induces the subject to believe that an existing object is not there.
As a sedative and hypnotic compound, its use was recommended for getting a good night's sleep and for soothing excited children.
A person acting under hypnotic suggestion or a subconscious motive could be said to be acting on such reasons.
They appropriated it and experimented with it as a hypnotic agent.
I look at hypnotic amnesia and dissociative identity disorder in relation to this contrast.
Participants in hypnosis studies generally wish to be hypnotized and therefore consent to fill the hypnotic role and follow suggestions.
Now, suppose that the experimental manipulation involves a hypnotic suggestion that the first task be forgotten.
Effect of post-hypnotic dissociation on the performance of interfering tasks.
Instead of revealing the presence of a hypnotic trance, they disclose a normal human capacity to profoundly alter subjective experience.
However, these responses can also be elicited without a hypnotic induction.
One example was the vogue for hypnotic age regression.
Activation of left prefrontal areas was interpreted to reflect the functional neuroanatomical consequences of the hypnotic suggestion.
Hypnotic involuntariness thus provides an example of the lack of experience of will that is yet more perplexing than alien hand syndrome.
The images are extremely energetic, never constant and very hypnotic.
Other plant extracts (valerian) have promising hypnotic properties but have not been tested in dementia.
In addition, the therapists sought to structure the hypnotic sessions through guided imagery.
The epistemic e strategy of these re-stagings aimed at depathologizing the hypnotic experiment as much as possible.
The similar left frontal activations reported in the present study and those involving sensorimotor hypnotic states suggest that the parallels between chronic unexplained symptoms and hypnosis merit further study.
Hypnotic behavior derives from specific suggestions that are given, rather than from the induction, of trance, and it can be observed in 90% of the population.
Among the hospital scenes he included were several very striking hypnotic and pentothal sessions, in which memories or bodily function suddenly return after the entranced revisiting of traumatic experiences.
Acupuncture for chronic shoulder pain: an experimental study with attention to the role of placebo and hypnotic susceptibility.
Since the victim or detainee is imagined as thrust into a state of hypnotic-imitation, the mimetic theory cannot help worrying about confabulation, or the problem of testimonial authenticity.
The initial material returns with soft-centred strings above hypnotic vibraphone f iguration and is sung to a close by the rapturous sound of bowed vibraphone chords.
Imaging hypnotic paralysis : implications for conversion hysteria.
Another quasi-spiritual dimension may be the use of the hypnotic repeating notes and chords characteristic of minimalism, a musical movement that often uses repetition to induce a trance-like effect.
The wording is that of the hypnotic, repetitive rhetoric of the ritual, used in the same way as was the word 'lovely' in the first scene.
However, some of the terms used throughout the book are not defined or explained well, such as sedative, hypnotic, minor tranquillizer, binge drinking, and so on.
Satisfaction with, and the beneficial side effects of, hypnotic analgesia.
Action will then be taken to solve these perceived problems, even if the medication prescribed - typically an analgesic or a hypnotic - may not be appropriate for depression.
The mere fact that the person who advances them is a hypnotic subject to whom a negative illusion has been suggested is sufficient to justify rejecting them out of hand.
We have an explanation for why a religious believer would make the claim just as we have an explanation for why the hypnotic subject makes his claim.
The indication for hypnotic prescription is uncertain.
Hypnotic susceptibility, mood state, and cardiovascular reactivity.
Cerebral mechanisms of hypnotic induction and suggestion.
The bridges overhead come up in front of one with hypnotic regularity.
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